Mauna Kea's Winter Milky Way stretching from Alpha & Beta Centauri,
the Southern Cross, Sirius, Orion, Gemini, and Auriga over the giant
telescopes of the UK's Infrared Telescope, Japan's Subaru telescope,
the Keck twin telescopes and NASA's Infrared Telescope below a distant
Haleakala Crater on Maui. Mauna Kea is one of the best known observing sites on the planet located at the top of Hawaii. Wally Pacholka/Astropics.com